Motivational Quotes

Alcohol and alcoholism

They make much of our drinking, but never think of our thirst.

- Schefer, L.

Alcohol and alcoholism Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Alcohol and alcoholism

It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.

Fields, W. C.

I never drink water. I'm afraid it will become habit-forming.

Fields, W. C.

A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn't care to drink with, even if he drank.

Mencken, H. L.

The cost of living has gone up another dollar a quart.

Fields, W. C.

The Great Spirit, who made all things, made every thing for some use, and whatever use he designed anything for, that use it should always be put to. Now, when he made rum, he said Let this be for the Indians to get drunk with, and it must be so.

Native American Elder

One drink is too many for me and a thousand not enough.

Behan, Brendan F.

There is a devil in every berry of the grape.

Koran, The

What whiskey will not cure, there is no cure for.

Proverb, Irish

There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

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There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.

Johnson, Samuel

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I drink to forget I drink.

Lewis, Joe E.

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Other countries drink to get drunk, and this is accepted by everyone; in France, drunkenness is a consequence, never an intention. A drink is felt as the spinning out of a pleasure, not as the necessary cause of an effect which is sought: wine is not only a philter, it is also the leisurely act of drinking.

Barthes, Roland

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I would take a bomb, but I can't stand the noise.

Lewis, Joe E.

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Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.

Fielding, Henry

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Prohibition may be a disputed theory, but none can say that it doesn't hold water.

Masson, Thomas L.

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They make much of our drinking, but never think of our thirst.

Schefer, L.

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When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.

Rabelais, Francois

19.

Even though a number of people have tried, no one has ever found a way to drink for a living.

Kerr, Jean

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No power on earth or above the bottomless pit has such influence to terrorize and make cowards of men as the liquor power. Satan could not have fallen on a more potent instrument with which to thrall the world. Alcohol is king!

Stewart, Eliza ''Mother''

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When a woman drinks it's as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in a woman, and a female alcoholic is rare, a serious matter. It's a slur on the divine in our nature.

Duras, Marguerite

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Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Fields, W. C.

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The piano has been drinking, not me.

Waits, Tom

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I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale.

Farquhar, George

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Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny.

Duras, Marguerite

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Don't you drink? I notice you speak slightingly of the bottle. I have drunk since I was fifteen and few things have given me more pleasure. When you work hard all day with your head and know you must work again the next day what else can change your ideas and make them run on a different plane like whisky? When you are cold and wet what else can warm you? Before an attack who can say anything that gives you the momentary well-being that rum does? The only time it isn't good for you is when you write or when you fight. You have to do that cold. But it always helps my shooting. Modern life, too, is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Seneca

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There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

Johnson, Samuel

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It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people. You can hold your tongue and, moreover, you can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don't see or care.

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Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

Twain, Mark

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I'm tired of hearing sin called sickness and alcoholism a disease. It is the only disease I know of that we're spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year to spread.

Havner, Vance

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I like whiskey. I always did, and that is why I never drink it.

Lee, Robert E.

33.

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Under a tattered cloak you will generally find a good drinker.

Proverb, Spanish

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The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.

Bunuel, Luis

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There is only one really safe, mild, harmless beverage and you can drink as much of that as you like without running the slightest risk, and what you say when you want it is, Garcon! Un Pernod!

Crowley, Aleister

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Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.

Herbert, George

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A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into.

Fuller, Thomas

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Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Fuller, Thomas

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I'm tied of hearing about temperance instead of abstinence, in order to please the cocktail crowd in church congregations.

Havner, Vance

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I don't drink any more than the man next to me, and the man next to me is Dean Martin.

Lewis, Joe E.

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Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Swift, Jonathan

43.

It provokes the desire but it takes away the performance. Therefore much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes him and it mars him; it sets him on and it takes him off.

Shakespeare, William

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I drink to make other people interesting.

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It pays to get drunk with the best people.

Lewis, Joe E.

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I told you, sir, they were red-hot with drinking; so full of valor that they smote the air, for breathing in their faces, beat the ground for kissing of their feet.

Shakespeare, William

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I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.

Churchill, Winston

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Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them. They have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne. Americans do not need to drink to inspire them to do anything, though they do sometimes, I think, need a little for the deeper and more delicate purpose of teaching them how to do nothing.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.

Fields, W. C.

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The hangover became a part of the day as well allowed-for as the Spanish siesta.